[HN Gopher] The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
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       The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)
        
       Author : harporoeder
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-08-26 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (suricrasia.online)
 (TXT) w3m dump (suricrasia.online)
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       |  _The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26766722 - April 2021 (60
       | comments)
        
       | skunkworker wrote:
       | The fictional article
       | https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/ is one the best
       | written computer science/cryptography SCP like articles I've ever
       | read.
       | 
       | What I loved is that:
       | 
       | $ echo -en 'basilisk:0000000000:ds26ovbJzDwkVWia1tINLJZ2WXEHBvItM
       | ZRxHmYhlQd0spuvPXb6cYFJorDKkqlA' | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary |
       | openssl dgst -sha256 (stdin)=
       | 0000000000000000000000161b9f84a187cc21b172bf68b3cb3b78684d8e9f17
       | 
       | actually works, but is a little sneaky. See
       | https://www.metafilter.com/190463/so-who-is-there-left-to-tr...
       | 
       | Edit2: https://github.com/blackle/Basilisk-Hunter How the
       | examples were generated.
        
       | MonkeyMalarky wrote:
       | I love the breadth that Reflections on Trusting Trust, Therac-25,
       | and The Bitter Lesson are! But there's a lot of "X is Turing
       | complete" and "Y is a fork/zip/parsing infinite expansion bomb"
       | though.
        
       | thriftwy wrote:
       | I would expect to see https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ there.
        
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